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Joe Corneli <jcorneli@mail.ma.utexas.edu> writes:

> does anyone have ANSI colors in their emacs 21 running 
> in rxvt? If so, could you send me the relevant part
> of your .emacs?  I'm having the darnedest time with this...

Emacs asks the terminal if it groks colors.  If so, it uses colors.
If not, it doesn't.

So maybe the terminal is lying.  You can frob the termcap/terminfo
entries to say that the terminal understands color.
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